Apr 23
20161
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Pacifism as Pathology, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
"...private equity raised close to $34 billion for oil and gas funds in 2015—a 94% rise from three years ago—as new transactions continue to be executed."
Apr 22
20162
350.org / 1Sky, Avaaz, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Rockefeller Foundation, Whiteness & Aversive Racism
"Clean Energy" Acid Mine Draining Avaaz Denialism Divestment Environmentalism as Anthropocentrism GCCA hedge funds Lithium People's Climate March private equity TckTckTck
"In a perfect world, in another time, perhaps renewable energies will be made of butterfly kisses and rare, precious Earth minerals will fall from the sky."
Nov 16
20150
Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Union of Concerned Scientists, United Nations
Cat Bonds Catastrophe Bond Divestment Goldman Sachs. hedge funds Pension Funds Union of Concerned Scientists United Nations Wall Street World Bank
"The World Bank, the United Nations and the Union of Concerned Scientists have all heralded cat bonds as a way to leverage private capital markets to protect against climate catastrophe. In 2014, the World Bank created a $30 million cat bond to cover the risk of tropical cyclones and earthquakes in 16 countries, including Haiti."
May 02
20150
350.org / 1Sky, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
350.org Divestment Fracking hedge funds Jeremy Grantham private equity Tom Steyer
"Grantham, meanwhile, donated millions to buy the support of Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Environmental Defense Fund and Greenpeace. As usual, the 350 Climateers are clueless about how they are being used by fossil fuel investors to undermine democracy and the environmental movement."
Feb 10
20150
350.org / 1Sky, Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex
Divestment hedge funds Jeremy Grantham private equity Tom Steyer
"The campaign endangers its legitimacy — and shows how toothless it is — by accepting funding from Steyer and Grantham. Both have a clear financial interest in routing pension fund and endowment investments further from publicly traded securities and into the private markets dominated by their firms."